Poetry

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WHY??

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I sit here staring out of my bedroom window asking myself why

 

Something really awful happened to my best friend 

 

My best friend was killed by a drunk driver one night 

 

Now it just feels like someone has taken my life

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depression

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A caring word of an offer of listening can change everything in a friends troubled life
society always says to "mind your own business", but in my heart it tells me that  true friends care and watch out for each other.
 I respect my friends freedom but at the same time i show them that i care.  Read More »

Exerpts from Precious Gemstones

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THE CUTTING WIND

The cutting wind,

The sailboard with its sail

Filled full wind, cutting the gale 

In two!

 

 

GRADED DEGREE

UP THE  Read More »

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Sitting in the Dimming Sun

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Sitting in the dimming sun,
contemplating life,
I hear a chant
a mere whisper of a song.
I try to ignore it, but it grows louder
with every chirp of a bird or wave of the sea.
I try to drown it out with my dark, enveloping thoughts,
try to pretend that this strange song
Isn't absorbing into my body, my soul  Read More »

THROUGH SQUINTED EYE

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The ashen mist, an imposter of fog,

Canvassed the valley.

The trees, silhouettes of green-black,

Gently sway in the morn's mist.

A beleagured hoop, abandoned, stands alone

In the Londonesque atmosphere.

 

The sun, rising cautiously, from the east,  Read More »

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Spring Again

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Apparently every good poet writes a poem about spring, but just because it is said that i must do it, does not mean i have to do it their way:

Now spring has come again

The flowers are in bloom

world is full of beauty

rebirth and love for all

 

But i am still alone  Read More »

A WINSOME DRAFT

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The wind cannot make up its mind, this day,

                              Which way it wants to blow.

It moves the green grasses' blades to and fro.

The blades of green sway one way  Read More »

WHAT'S THE REMEDY?

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I dected the aromatic essence and injested its

tranquilizing effect.

The titillation exalted me among the clouds and

Left me to personify my thoughts.

Wrapped in the soothing mist of the clouds about me,

I contemplated my intoxication.

The effects were everything I had been looking for in  Read More »

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